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Show YOUTH BURNED IN GARAGE FIRE A Milford youth is In the Beaver County Hospital with second and third degree burns received in a fire in an unused garage building on the C. R. Wiseman farm three miles east of Milford, Thursday afternoon. Jeff Wiseman, 8, and a cousin, cous-in, Terry Wiseman, 11, were burning the tip from a broken target . arrow. Gasoline or oil became ignited, set fire to waste material in the shed, Jeff's clothing caught fire,, and he suffered third degree burns on his back and second and third degree burns on the back, arms and legs. Terry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wiseman, rolled the younger boy in the dirt until the flames were extinguished, ex-tinguished, and he was rushed to the Milford Medical Clinic where his mother is a nurse. After preliminary treatment at the clinic by Dr. D. A. Symond he was transferred to the hospital. Thursday afternoon he was receiving blood transfusions and intravenous feeding. His condition is considered serious. seri-ous. Jeff is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Wiseman. The quick thinking and prompt action of Terry in getting the younger boy out of the building and smothering smother-ing the flames undoubtedly saved him from much more severe burns. The shed, made of corrugated corrugat-ed tin, had been used only for storage since construction of a larger, modern garage at the Wayne Wiseman farm, a half-mile half-mile west. Lost in the fire were quantities of plastic irrigation irri-gation dams, plastic irrigation hose, lubricating oil and various vari-ous tools and sundry items. Loss was estimated at more than $1,000. The intense heat hampered firemen until they could start pumping water from an irrigation irriga-tion well 100 yards from the blaze. Threatened with destruction de-struction but saved by the firemen fire-men were a truck and farm machinery, a stack of baled hay, and corrals adjoining the shed. |